That’s what I am talking about. What people can understand, they can root for, even if the character is evil. It will never be 100%. But as high as possible is the aim.
I’m thinking to take a day off writing, since I am moving into act 3 with a completely different scene.
I am going to catch up on reading and figure skating instead. Plus, yeah, edit a couple of chapters. I also don’t have a day off tomorrow 
but starting coming Friday, it’s only 3 days at work, 4 days writing.
I really need to finish a book for review that is still outstanding!
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No, it doesn’t. The reason you deliver consistent size chapters is for chapter-by-chapter releases, so no one feels shorted. For a entire story, it divides how it divides.
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No, absolutely not. Chapter can be any number of words.
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So the publisher that gave me a request from the SFFPit on Twitter emailed and rejected me.
On the whole, I’m a little disappointed because who wouldn’t be, and the editor left me A LOT of feedback that I’ve put down for the third draft, so I’m not too disappointed. I didnt think I’d get anything out of it, so I feel like a winner to get some professional feedback for further editing.
However, one comment got to me, about my MC’s ages. I’ll send the screenshot. My MCs have an 8 year age gap and are “fated” (so soulmates) and she thinks that’s grooming WTF. My MIL and step father in law have a 20 year age gap and they’ve been happily married for nearly 16 years now XD To be fair to her, she mentions it’s her problem but it really wound me up. Like… um, no?
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If they have an eight-year gap and the legal age is eighteen, and she’s nineteen and he’s twenty-six then I don’t see a big deal. It’s not like they’re sixteen and twenty-five. I would be worried then. Anything under eighteen is a bit much, but your characters are of age.
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I think more so. Online, it’s important to keep posts fairly even so people know what they are getting every instalment. But if you put out a full book, the chapter length is irrelevant.
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that was my thought as well, like what. Even if she personally doesnt think it’s good, she’s a publisher, she should be objective and not judgy about that kind of thing.
Their relationship and being soulmates is completely legal. I dont get why she even mentioned it as a reason to reject me. The rest of the feedback was fair, but this really got to me, like I dont deem that a comment worthy of being there. 
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Honestly, someone protested my 17 and 21 yo being together after a long courtship. They made a long post about it too. Because they are gay, they said, it was particularly bad. I actually had to look up age of consent at every location the book took place afterward.
Incidentally, 7 years is an age gap between my husband and me and it’s not that huge
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For real! it’s not that big at all, especially being consenting adults. I dont get people’s protests. I just… idk it’s really offended me and it really shouldn’t 
plenty of people have read it on WP and not had a problem with it, from a wide range of age groups.
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It’s the culture shifting. They (randos online) are starting to call any man who dates a woman 18 to 21 years old a groomer or pedophile, even if it’s a 2 year gap. My parents were a little under 4 years apart, and 2 years of schooling apart, and started dating when she was 17. My parents were 18 and 21 when I was born. My mother advocated that I date guys 5 years older than me by about college, so she considered my dad too young, by that estimate.
Now, my father married my step mom a couple years back, and she’s about 2 years younger than me, so that’s an age gap of 23 years? But she was 35 when they got together. I’ve seen people chew HIM out like he was a pervert. His sole goal with that much younger a wife was NOT having another wife go before him. He married out of country to get away from people who THINK like this. People aggravate him with that crap.
Anyway, May-to-December marriages are vilified, now. It’s much a cultural recoil from kids dancing in front of adults with money being thrown at them, effectively teaching kids as young as 8 years old to dance for money. What confuses me is specifically when I have someone who vilifies relationships that are legal then turns around and defends anything like what I blanked out. My mind cannot process the reasoning, whatsoever.
If we promote stories to teens that are full of smut (looking at NA and YA, here, stuff I’m very reluctant to have mine categorized as, but it may be), and then turn around and call men groomers when they are dating ADULTS, what the hell are the books?! Preppings for a pepperoni pizza?!
Either I’m just too old for the changes in culture, or we’re no longer rational.
This is exactly why I keep tons of opinions to myself, too.
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Don’t worry about it. I mean, fated mates is already an arranged relationship concept, so this was just a strange comment that being 19 is a problem.
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Ugh I just can’t deal with it, like the book isn’t even smutty (I’ve written a smutty one-shot for readers but it’s not included in the book itself) and it’s like… 
THATS NOT LARGE AT ALL.
My parents are 6 years apart, my MIL and FIL(step) are 20 years, and they’re all extremely happy like what is this?
Ugh, I’m over it now I was just a bit taken aback by a professional saying that, like isn’t their job meant to be taking the plot objectively? I’m glad I got rejected, if thats her problem more than the rest then I dont want her to market and publish my book XD
Good lord if she saw some of my other work
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Yeah it was just such a weird comment to make like why is that your problem here? XD
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Yeah, the accountant…lmao.
I deal with fantasy, wait until they go after an Elf being 60, 100, older, and getting with 20ish year old human. They are supposed to be mentally the same age (the whole premise is that elves take forever to mentally become adults, which is why they have so few kids): it permeates the whole fantasy culture, has almost since Tolkien. I just make sure they’re adult as possible and hope to not have people interrogate me over my choices.
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Anyway, just the edit that gets me through the worst of the first arc of my story: It’s 34 chapters and 72k+. Somewhere in the second arc, trying to get to the last thing I wrote, so I can get back into this mug.
Romance novels aren’t supposed to be written like High Fantasy. Go me!
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Yeah, sounds on the long side, but there are folks who love really long romances too
LMAO that’s the one I was thinking about 
I think she’d have a heart attack XD
Thats the thing, I think people deem it more acceptable in a fantasy setting, but even then, it’s still an age gap so, like, UGH
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I can’t believe I am writing about a mechanic stripper and the chaos in his love life.
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Okay, I am sitting to read a little for review, but I need to go skating soon. Hopefully can do a good start